Strategic Finance - Asset Management Consolidations Associate

Apollo Management Holdings•New York City, NY

About The Position

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. Come to Apollo and join a community of extraordinary people who are committed to a culture of excellence and collaboration in everything that we do. We invest in our people for the long term and are committed to supporting their development at every stage of their career. Apollo is seeking a Strategic Finance Associate to play a key, hands-on role in budgeting and forecasting for the company and will help with the planning, analysis and reporting of Fee Related Earnings (FRE) and financial impacts of the Apollo Asset Management segment and the underlying businesses across the platform. This person will build monthly and ad-hoc analyses and presentations for senior leadership and foster relationships with the business heads, CFOs and the executive team.

Requirements

3+ years of financial analysis experience, ideally in Investment Banking, Private Equity, or FP&A
Excellent Excel-based modeling skills and PowerPoint presentation skills are required
Highly analytical thinking and financial reasoning capabilities with strong attention to detail and ability to think creatively
Operates with high degree of achievement and curiosity about helping to drive strategic initiatives and change across an organization
Flexible and comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly demanding, rapidly changing environment
Outstanding communication, presentation, organizational, and interpersonal skills
Has a record of cross-functional collaboration, good judgment, and creative solutions
Shown ability to partner with senior level stakeholders and run processes independently

Nice To Haves

Experience leveraging OneStream, Power BI, AI-driven tools (Claude, ChatGPT) to enhance analytical workflows and insight generation
An understanding of FRE in the asset management space is a plus

Responsibilities

Coordinate with business leads, business-level CFOs, and other team members to define business reporting and analytics requirements and execute all aspects of deliverables
Focus on analyzing and reporting firmwide Fee Related Earnings throughout the annual budget, 5-year plan, and monthly forecast processes
Support the development of timely, high-quality FRE insights to help Senior Management set direction for the firm
Analyze FRE performance versus projections by assessing key business drivers, risks/opportunities, and fund-level variances, including deeper investigation as needed
Create presentations and key analyses for Senior Management and Board of Directors that effectively communicate the story
Ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timely delivery of all FRE inputs and dependencies across the team
Respond in a timely manner to all ad-hoc questions and requests for information.
Become a widely recognized source for high quality management information for various departments
Enhance and improve the scope and content of existing reporting & analyses to better serve a growing stakeholder base; work with Technology to automate reporting processes